President Donald Trump said Monday that the fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran is barely holding on, warning that Tehran’s most recent proposal failed to include any meaningful nuclear concessions and instead introduced demands he described as provocative.

“It’s on life support,” Trump told reporters during a maternal health event in the Oval Office.

“Dr [Mehmet] Oz, life support is not a good thing,” he said, turning to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services boss.

“I would say the cease-fire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living,’” the president added.

The truce, which took effect April 8, has remained tenuous, with both sides carrying out limited strikes despite the agreement.

Trump also asserted Monday that Iranian officials had, just days earlier, signaled willingness to surrender roughly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium, only to later exclude that commitment from a formal proposal that instead portrayed Iran as emerging victorious from the conflict.

“They did two days ago. They said, ‘You’re going to have to take it.’ We were going to go with them, but they changed their mind because they didn’t put it in the paper,” Trump said.

“They told me, ‘Number one, you’re getting it, but you’re going to have to take it out,’ because the site was so obliterated that there’s only one or two countries in the world that could get it. It’s so deep and got hit so hard that there’s no way they have the equipment to move it. ‘You and China are the only two countries in the world that could take it out.’

“So we talked about it. They said, ‘You’ll have to take it out, because we don’t have the capability of doing it.’”

Trump has previously maintained that Iran accepted key US conditions during negotiations, claims that were later rejected by Iranian officials.

According to Iranian state media, Tehran’s latest proposal called for financial compensation from Washington, formal acknowledgment of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, and the lifting of American sanctions.

“How stupid. Are they stupid people?” Trump said of the offer.

“They think that, well, I’ll get tired of this, or I’ll get bored, or I’ll have some pressure. But there’s no pressure. There’s no pressure at all.”

“We’re going to have a complete victory,” Trump went on. “We’ve already, in theory, had a complete victory from the military standpoint.”

Trump added that internal divisions within Iran are complicating negotiations, pointing to what he described as a clash between “moderates” and “lunatics.”

{Matzav.com}